Pterosaurs in Texas A Quetzalcoatlus had a 50 foot wingspan. (Copyright Lee Krystek 1996) Policeman Arturo Padilla of San Benito, Texas, was driving his police cruiser through the wee hours of the morning in 1976 when something unusual appeared in his headlights. It looked like a big bird. Only a few minutes later fellow officer Homer Galvan reported it too. A black silhouette that glided ...